Dear Foreign Minister/Secretary of State:

I am writing to you out of deep concern for the appalling human rights situation in Iran,
particularly the Islamic Republic’s use of stoning, execution and torture to terrorize people.

Iran executes the most people per capita in the world. There are currently several people
facing imminent execution for alleged political affiliations, including Zeinab Jalalian and Jafar
Kazemi, under death sentences leveraged on the charge of “mohareb”. The charge of
mohareb, combined with indications that the Islamic Republic is preparing to accelerate the
execution of dissidents, recalls that government’s method of using rapid trials to justify
immediate executions of political prisoners in 1988. Others facing imminent execution on
political charges include Mohammad Ali Haj Aghaei; Abdolreza Ghanbari, Ahmad
Daneshpour and his son Mohsen; and Ali Saremi. Mohammad-Reza Haddadi was sentenced
to execution as a 15 year old, which is illegal under international law.

I demand freedom for political prisoners in Iran, and an immediate halt to torture and
execution. I demand that you call in the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic representatives and
make it clear that the international community will not tolerate stoning, hanging, rape,
torture, and punishments such as the cutting off of hands. I want the Islamic Republic’s
embassy closed. A regime that resorts to these methods to maintain its power has no
legitimacy, as millions of Iranian protesters in the streets of Tehran and other cities have
declared, and its leaders belong behind bars.

Sincerely,
[your name]